Wooden Architectural Heritage Experts Collaborate to Prevent Termite Damage

International Seminar Inviting Termite Experts
Sharing Cases and Control Technologies for Wooden Cultural Heritage
Live Broadcast on the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage YouTube Channel

The National Heritage Agency's National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage announced on the 17th that it will hold an "International Termite Expert Invitation Seminar" in the underground auditorium of the Analytical Science Center on the 19th. Experts on termites from the United States and Taiwan will be invited to derive prevention methods and preservation plans for damage to wooden cultural heritage.

The keynote presentations will include Kim Si-hyun, a curator at the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Carrie Cotton, Deputy Director of the Mosquito, Termite, and Rodent Control Bureau in New Orleans, USA, and Ho-feng Li, a professor at National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan. They will share termite damage cases and control technologies such as termite damage and control of Korean wooden architectural heritage, spatial control of invasive termites, and termite damage and control strategies in Taiwan.

In the subsequent comprehensive discussion, Jeong So-young, Head of the Artifact Science Department at the National Palace Museum, Lee Jong-ho, Head of the Plant Protection Division at the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, and Hwang Won-jung, Researcher at the Wood Engineering Research Division of the National Institute of Forest Science, will exchange opinions on termite damage prevention. The entire process will be broadcast live on the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage's YouTube channel.

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